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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Max 27, 1886. 



Arkansas.— Clarendon, Monroe County, May 18.— White 

 River is one of the prettiest and best fishing streams in the 

 United States, and contains many kinds of fish, from the 

 long gar pike, some of which weigh 150 pounds, to the grame 

 and nimble trout and bass; also four or five kirjds of perch, 

 and the much talked of and dreaded catfish. Have seen cat- 

 fish caught here that weighed 100 pounds. All we have to 

 do to catch ''catty," is to suspend a line 150 to 200 feet long 

 from the Texas & St. Louis Railroad Bridge which crosses 

 here. The 15 to 25 large hooks on the fine are baited with 

 almost any kind of fresh fish or meat. Crayfish or crawfish, 

 of which there is an abundance, make fine bait for perch and 

 catfish.— Cavalteb. 



> Adirondack Preserve Association. — A new organiza- 

 tion under this title has secured possession of the old Rhine- 

 lander estate in Hamilton county , Y. The. property em- 

 braces 22.000 acres, with trout streams and lakes. The 

 Association will erect club houses, engage gamekeepers, and 

 otherwise improve and protect their possessions. Mr, J, L 

 Marvin, No. li Cedar street, "New York, the active organ- 

 izer, is enthusiastic in his estimate of the advantages the 

 new club will offer its city members. The officers are: 

 Henry C. Sauires, President; James L. Marvin, Vice Presi- 

 dent; W. E. Freer, Secretary; Geo. W. Shiebler, Treasurer. 

 The membership will be limited to 200, shares being $100. 



Fly-Fishing for Shad — Baltimore, May 24. — Editor 

 Forest and Stream: You are in error in asserting that shad 

 may be successfully taken with the fly only in the Connecti- 

 cut and Housatonic rivers. Whether they may be success- 

 fully taken anywhere is. I think, debatable; butthat shad do 

 rise to the fly in the Chattahoochee River, at Columbus. Ga., 

 is a fact. In proportion to the number of fishermen who try 

 for shad with the fly at Holyoke and Columbus, I feel con- 

 fident the result is decidpdly in favor of Columbus. Shad 

 also rise to the fly in the Patausco, at the Relay House, B. & 

 O. R. R — Ches. A. Peake. 



Trout Prom a Pond.— Detroit, Mich., May 21. — I re- 

 ceived from my brother, now in Muskegon county, this 

 Stale, per express yesterday, a dozen fine trout, taken from a 

 pond that was stocked five years ago; and as they have not 

 been disturbed, there are now some excellent fish in it. One, 

 that was IS inches long, was taken by hand on a flume 

 recently built. Those I had were all taken with the fly, but 

 the worm is preferred, it is said. The latter are only ob- 

 tainable some four miles distant. — C. J. Thomas. 



Maryland. — Amateurs at Port Deposit and Lapidum are 

 having fine times trollinc fer rockfish. One day recently 

 Oscar Morrison caught 73 and George Stephson 40. with 

 hook and line, in a few hours. They were small, however, 

 weighing from three to four pounds. Some very large ones 

 havebeen captured by gillers and seine-haulers, one Saturday 

 fully three feet long. Black bass fishing will also sonn com- 

 mence in the Susquehanna, and parties from the cities are 

 already making fishing arrangements with our local boatmen. 



WORK AT COLD SPRING HARBOR. N. Y. 



BY FRED MATHER. 

 [Bead before the American Fisheries Society.] 



THIS station of the New York Fish Commission, of which 

 I am the superintendent, is on the north shore of Long 

 Island, and is intended for both salt and fresh water fish. 

 Some work is also done for the United States Fish Commission, 

 and the expense of this is borne by the general government, 

 and the fish hatched are mainly distributed within the State. 

 These latter fish are mainly salmon, land-locked and lake 

 trout. In some cases, such as the whitefish and shad, the eggs 

 are given by the United States, and are distributed by the 

 State, an arrangement of great value to the latter. 



During the past season we have had 262,000 trout fry at the 

 station. Of these there were 40,000 eggs taken at the station, 

 112.000 eggs bought by Mr. John D. Hewlett, of Cold Spring 

 Harbor, from James Annin, Jr. and W. L. Gilbert, the fry 

 from which went into the waters of the north and south sides 

 of Long Island, and 110,000 fry were received from the New 

 York hatcherv at Caledonia, in charge of Mr. M. A. Green. 

 We have, on ' hand at present writing 3,000,000 eggs of the 

 smelt, 1,000 eggs of the Oquassa trout from Sunapee Lake, 

 New Hampshire, a gift of Mr. Elliott B. Hodge, Commissioner 

 of that State. One million whitefish from eggs sent from the 

 Northville, Michigan, station, of the U. S. Commission, under 

 charge of Mr. F. N. Clark, by order of Prof. S. F. Baird, have 

 been hatched and distributed to Great Pond, near Riverhead, 

 Long Island, and to Lake Ronkonkoma, a large, lake in the 

 center of the island. Previous plantings have been made in 

 these lakes, but we have been unable so far to learn the result 

 of them. It is hoped, however, that this fish may find a suit- 

 able home in these waters. 



On this subject the County Treasurer of Suffolk county 

 writes me from Riverhead, under date of Jan. 30, 1SS6, as 

 follows : 



Fred Mather, Esq.: Dear Sir— I will be very glad to assist you in 

 any way. I have two parties out trying to get a specimen of the 

 whitefish for you, but have failed so far on account of the ice, but 

 will give it a thorough trial when the ice is gone and report to you. 

 I am having a net fixed now to tiy to catch one or more. There is a 

 pond one and a half miles long just above Riverhead, good running 

 water, which I hired two men to clean out of all worthless fish, such 

 as catfish, suckers and what we call '•roach." They caught about 

 two and a half tons of turtles, which we carted off and buried. I was 

 in hopes to get some black bass to place ia this pond, and would like 

 some whitefish for it now. We have a good place for lake trout, and 

 if you will send us some and let us know when ihey will arrive, I will 

 take especial pains for their care. Perhaps the brown trout might 

 do well here. (Signed) J. Henry Perkins. 



In the salt-water department, we have hatched and turned 

 out oyer two million tomcods, or as they are sometimes called 

 on the coast, frost fish, a small relative of the cod which seldom 

 exceeds a pound in weight but is quite an important little 

 food fish in our harbors. In January we had some 2,000,000 

 codfish eggs of which a very fair percentage were developing, 

 until a blizzard blew through our old dilapidated shanties, 

 which we use for hatching houses, and froze up the pipes and 

 the eggs in the jars. We had watched the development of 

 these°eggs daily under the microscope with great interest and 

 felt sure of success until the cold snap put a stop to all further 

 development. 



Of the brown trout, which bv the way I believe to be the 

 gamest trout in America, we had some three thousand eggs 

 from our own fish, and have received 25,000 from Germany 



PROTECTING MACKEREL.— A bill to prohibit the cap 

 ture of mackerel during the spawning season has been before 

 Congress for some time, and on Monday last the House spent 

 the day in considering it. Mr. Hewitt (N. Y.), in opposing 

 the bill, said there were three results that would follow from 

 its passage: First, it would deprive a very large number of 

 people of cheap and nutritious food ; second, it would deprive 

 more than two thousand fishermen of employment between 

 the months of April and June; third, it would confine 

 mackerel fishing to the States of Massachusetts and Maine. 

 The mackerel arrived on the coast about the end of March at 

 the mouth of Ckesapeake Bay and proceeded northward,' 

 reaching Massachusetts and Maine in the month of June, at 

 which time the operations of this bill would cease. He denied 

 that spring fishing produced fish of an inferior grade, and he 

 quoted from a letter from Prof. Baird to the effect that that 

 gentleman could see no beneficial results that would como 

 from the bill. The spawn of a single mackerel produced 

 500,000 eggs, and it was impossible for man to destroy these 

 ocean fish. A fisherman had told him that he had met a school 

 of mackerel seven miles long and two miles wide, so densely 

 packed that it seemed as though the water had no room among 

 them. Mr.Milliken (Me.) said the same argument that was made 

 against this bill had been made against the proposition to re- 

 strict the catching of menhaden. It had been said that men- 

 haden could not be destroyed by man, but for the past few 

 years menhaden had been so scarce off the coast of Maine that 

 the fishermen could not catch enough for bait. The same was 

 true with the lobster fisheries. When he was a boy he used to 

 catch plenty of lobsters one and a half and two feet long. To- 

 day they were not only scarce, but so small that they seemed 

 to have hardly left off their swaddling clothes before they 

 were caught. Mr. Lore (Del.) said that the bill was a practical 

 prohibition to the catching of mackerel from Cape Hatteras to 

 Massachusetts. The people of Delaware did not wish to be 

 confined to saltmackerel, as they would be under this bill. They 

 wanted fresh mackerel now and then. Finally the bill was 

 passed— yeas, 120; nays, 80. It prohibits for a period of five 

 years, from March 1, 1887, the importation into the United 

 States or the landing upon its shores of mackerel (except 

 Spanish mackerel) caught between March 1 and June 1 of each 

 year. The penalty prescribed for a violation is the forfeiture, 

 of the mackerel imported or landed, and, if the vessel violat- 

 ing the act be a United States vessel, a forfeiture of its license. 

 Nothing, however, in the act is to be held to apply to mack- 

 erel caught off shore with hook and line from open rowboats 

 less than twenty feet keel and landed in said boats. 



Every pair of Allen's bowfaeing oars warranted. Send for little 

 catalogue, free. Fred A. Allen, Monmouth, III.- Adv. 



Unml 



A Monster Salmon — Last Tuesday an enormous salmon 

 arrived in New York from the Columbia River, Oregon. It 

 lay on the slabs of Commissioner Blackford, in Fulton Mar- 

 ket, and was labeled, "The largest salmon ever causrht " It 

 then weighed 64 pouuds, but' is said to have weighed 72 

 when caught. Many people estimated its weight above these 

 figures. 



New Hampshire Notes.— New London, N. H,, May 24. 

 —Editor Forest and Stream: The big trout of Sunapee Lake 

 and the landlocked salmon are beginning to take hold, but 

 very little fishing has been done so far. One hundred thou- 

 sand brook trout fry and 30.000 landlocked salmon fry have 

 been successfully hatched and liberated. — Sunapee. 



Strikes and Rumors of Strikes have filled the 

 columns of the daily papers for weeks and months. The 

 business man who reads Forest and Stream finds there 

 too a good deal about "strikes," but his spirit is not per- 

 turbed thereby. 



Red Bank. N. J., May 19 —Took five bass yesterday P. 

 M., first of the season. Water too thick for good trolling. 

 Prospects good for bass this summer. — Wild. 



Robert Brvant, of High Bridge, N. J., publishes ah 

 attractive catalogue of rods, reels and anglers' supplies^man- 

 ufactured by him. 



The World's Pastime Exposition, a display of all 

 classes of goods relating to different pastimes, will open in 

 Chicago, July 3. 



Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., is cursed with a set of dyna- 

 mite fi«h killers, who are rapidly cleaning out the bass and 

 pickerel. 



San Luis Obispo, Cal., May 4 —The fishing is better at 

 Sancho Poho than at any other part of this section of country. 

 — C. , 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



A Handbook of English History, based on the lectures of the 

 late M.J. Guest, and brought down to the year 1880, with a supple- 

 men tarv chapter upon English Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 

 Bv Francis H. Underwood. With maps, tables, etc. Boston: Lee & 

 Shepard. Cloth, 614 pp. Price, $1.30. 



The American Angler's Book, embracing the natural history of 

 sporting fish and the art of taking them. With instructions m fly- 

 fishing flv-making and rod-making; and directions for fish breeding. 

 To whicb"is added Dies Piscatorioe; describing noted fishing places, 

 and the pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. With a supplement con- 

 taining descriptions of salmon rivers, inland trout fishing, etc. By 

 TtaaddeusNorris. Illustrated. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Cloth. 

 701 pp. Price, §5.50. 



The Badminton Library. Racing by the Earl of Suffolk and Berk- 

 shire, and W. G. Craven: Steeplechasing by Arthur Coventry and A. 

 E T. Watson. Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. Cloth, 

 419 pp. 



The Scientific Angler. Being a general and instructive work on 

 artistic angling. By the late David Foster. Third edition. Illus- 

 trated. London: Bemrose & Sons. Cloth, 354 pp. 



Modern Whist, together with the laws of whist. By Clement 

 Davies. New York: Scribner & Welford. Cloth, 94 pp. 



Mr Isaacs. A tale of modern India. By F. Marion Crawford. 

 New York: Macmillan & C®. Paper, 310 pp. Price, 50 cents. 



Allen's bow-facing oars, 

 111.— Adv. 



i per pair. Fred A. Allen, Monmouth, 



through the courtesy of our good friend, Herr von Behr, 

 president of the German Fishery Association; with a promise 

 of 50,000 more from Herr von dem Borne, the well-known 

 fishculturist of Berneuchen. 



From the United States Fish Commission we have 500,000 

 salmon hatched from eggs received from the hatching station 

 at Orland, Me., under charge of Mr. C. G. Atkins. These will 

 go into the headwaters of the Hudson, the Salmon River, 

 emptying into Lake Ontario, the Oswego River and some 

 50 000 will go by request of State Commissioner R. U. Sher- 

 man to the waters of the Saranacs, whose outlet is into Lake 

 Champlain and down into the St. Lawrence. These fish are 

 now ready for distribution. We have also about 34,000 land- 

 locked salmon from the United States works at Grand Lake 

 stream. Me., in charge of Mr. H. H. Buck, also sent at request 

 of General Sherman, for the waters near the Adirondack 

 hatchery, either in Saranacs or in Lake Brandon, formerly 

 known as Little Clear Pond, now set apart for the State 

 hatchery, on whose outlet it is located. The hatching season 

 has been exceptionally good, and the losses of eggs and fry 

 have been down to the minimum. The work at the station 

 was done by two men and myself, uutil in February we were 

 reinforced by Mr. F. A.Walters, superintendent of the Adi- 

 rondack hatchery, who in former years had been my fore- 

 man, but who by an accident to the dam at the hatchery 

 under his charge was relieved from duty there for the present. 



Last fall some new ponds were made; the only ones which 

 were there when the State took possession were drained and 

 quantities of eels taken from them, which, no doubt, destroyed 

 many fry in former years. A fence has been put around the 

 place aDd the grounds greatly improved. A new hatchery is 

 sadly needed, as the two buildings now used for this purpose 

 are not only small but so decayed as to be ready to tumble 

 down. The men have worked in these buildings with six inches 

 of ice under their feet, and at times with water f reezmg withm 

 ten feet of a red hot stove, and while ice has occasionally 

 formed to the depth of a quarter of an inch m the hatching 

 troughs it has done no damage there. But the two-inch iron 

 pipes which convey the salt water to the jars did freeze and 

 tbe flow was stopped. The eggs of the cod , being so light that 

 they would not bear a strong current, consequently the flow 

 had to be shut down to a very small quantity, and all troze. 

 as did some small English soles also. ' 



The station, with these advantages of fresh and salt water, 

 coidd be made, with a proper expenditure of money, the most 

 important one in the United States. Its flow of fresh water is 

 not anything like as great as at some other stations, but the 

 height' from which this water is taken-some forty feet above 

 the hatcherv, renders it possible to use the water over many 

 times; in fact, we do so now. The brick budding on the hill, 

 tn which there are twelve troughs with a capacity tor dO 000 

 salmon each, receives the water first; it then flows into a 

 little pool, where egg shells and dirt may settle, and is con- 

 veyed on the upper floor of the main hatch eiy, m which there 

 are eleven troughs, and it then passes into the ponds. An- 

 other spring supplies the lower floor of the hatchery, which 

 has nine troughs, and hatching tables on which twenty-five 

 McDonald jars can be placed and either salt or fresh water 

 turned into them. . . 



The fresh-water supply is capable of running more troughs 

 than we now use, but the floor surfaces of the buildings will 

 not permit them. Tbe salt water which is withm three hun- 

 dred yards at low tide, is pumped into a reservoir on the hill 

 and led into the buildings through a two-inch iron pipe, so that 

 practically the sea is above us. The density of the water is 

 sufficient to hatch codfish and oysters, and manw oysters were 

 hatched here last, season by order of Mr. E. G. Blackford, of 

 the New York Fish Commission, who is in charge ot the oys- 

 ter investigations of the State, an account of which is given 

 in another paper. We have successfully hatched shad m the 

 spring water here, and may repeat the experiment this year. 

 It is now three years since we began work here, and our 

 last season's work will foot up to about sax millions of fry of 

 different species, hatched and distributed. 

 Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., April 1Q. 



FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov 8.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association, at Abilene, Kan. R. C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas 



Cl Nov M 22.— Eighth annual field trials of tbe Eastern Field Trials Club, 

 at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flatbush, Kings 

 county, N. Y. 



• DOG SHOWS. 



May 18, 19. 20 and 21.— Third Annual Dog Show of the St. Louis 

 Gun Club, St. Louis, Mo. Geo. Munson. Manager. 



May 25, 26 and 27— First Dot; Show of the Ninth Regiment. Wilkes- 

 Pa. W. H Tuck, Secretary, Wilkesbarre, Pa. . „ 



July 20, 21, 22 and 23.— Milwaukee Dog Show. John D. Olcott, Man- 

 ager'Milwaukee, Wis. . 

 Aug. 24, 85, 26 and 27.— First Annual Dog Show of the Latonia 

 " Itural Association, Covington, Ky. George H. Hill, Manager, 



Agricultural — 

 P. O. ifox 76. Cincinnati, O. 



Sept 14, 15. 16 and 17.— First fall dog show of the New Jersey Ken 

 nel Club, Waverly, N. J. A. P. Vredenburg, secretary, Bergen Point, 

 N. J. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub- 

 lished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearlv subscription 81.50. Address 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Bo. 2832, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3689. 



MASTIFF JUDGING AT NEW YORK. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



May a high private venture to differ, fundamentally and 

 radically, from your views on the above subject? And may 

 he express the opinion that the many and grievous sins toward 

 the mastiffs that the W. K. C. has been guilty of are almost 

 to be pardoned for the service they did the breed in the 

 selection of Dr, Perry as their judge this year? He had the 

 courage to award his prizes according to what he believed the 

 best and truest type of dog, and to disregard what is supposed 

 to be the riding fashion in England (mark me, I say "supposed 

 meaningly and will prove it further along). For bis first prize 

 winner he selected the dog with the fewest iaults of any 

 shown A dog, beaten in some points by several others in the 

 class yet without the other defects that these dogs had, and 

 which far outweigh their special merits, and this dog Baby is 

 of an average high order of merit all over, if not of superlative 

 greatness in any one point. The philosophy of dog judging 

 seems to have generally commenced at the wrong end by 

 selecting dogs for special merits and then making allowance 

 for faults that condemn them, even as dogs. Surely this is 

 nonsense and illogical, and is there any reason why judging 

 should not be logical? For instance, Snoozer may have 

 a wonderful head, short in face, broad and flat in skull, 

 deep and broad in muzzle, but he may have dayback 

 enough for a fair bulldog, ears that would honor a 

 second-rate bloodhound, legs that would ornament a 

 spider in their crooks and a walk that would put a broken- 

 leered grasshopper to shame. Now a mastiff should have a 

 brfad skull and 1 short face but he should also have a blunt 

 squarely truncated muzzle; does layback fill this bill, or is 

 a, pug really square in muzzle? Yet the short face carries all 

 before it- or this "sbortfaced" specimen may not have the fore- 

 going defects, but he is about the size of a big setter; a mas- 

 tiff used to be supposed to be a big dog, size is a natural re- 

 quirement, yet the pigmy goes first; or worst of all. this marvel 

 of perfection may be actually a cripple. Is lameness lor lack 

 of power in his legs a characteristic of the breed ! Yet the judge 

 overlooks all these vital defects and blindly bows down at the 

 feet of "short face." Is this philosophical? Pen your judge up in 

 this corner and he deftly evades you by ''character/' Now 

 character is an essential mark of any breed, but it .must be a 

 loeical deduction from the standards and scales set up by the 

 fanciers of the breed, not the judge's private opinion of what 

 the ruling fashion may be in England, and unfortunately ^the 

 Practice with us, is too much to imagine that English fanciers 

 are all crazv on the subject of head. Now the course of some 

 of tS ligts of the Old English Mastiff Club, certainly seem to 

 point to the conclusion that all that a dog need haye is a head 

 and that if that can be seen sticking out of his stall, it is a 

 waste of time and trouble to take him into the ring. 



But after all is that the authority on the matter, Let u» 

 see. Mr. Hanbury must surely be accepted as one the 

 authorities of the club; with the exception of Mr JNichols 

 he is the only breeder of long standing and great rep ate , he 

 put Prince Regent over Crown Prince, Prince Regeno being 



